For the first time, Ceci, I think you have been rather partial in your posting... I think you are being unfair to Presiedent Fox in the first part of this entry. Looks like you may also be drinking a little of the kool-aid about him being some sort of "traitor" to democracy. I did not vote for him, but if anything, he has diminished the mythical imperial presidency into a more healthy size, more in line with a modern democracy (fallible but honest and hard-working, like his predecesor Zedillo) while remaining within the law. So he engages in some bare-knuckle politics from time to time, but so does everybody else. You don't get to be president by being the Dalai Lama. He has broken no laws, and history will remember him better than you seem to suggest.

Welcome to the Mexican banana republic!

Here you will not have enough reggae as you would like but a lot of nice and beautiful beaches. What we could guarantee you is a magnificent unstable political ambience which characterizes the region.

Now, with all these wise and mature political and democratic attitudes that Mexico is showing to the world, our beautiful country is getting far from its "developing country" position to join the group of instable Caribbean countries.

Yes sir! All this with the help of our super star: Mr. López. He is yearning for the presidency and it has turned this beloved Mexican friend completely crazy. He just wants to be president no mater at what price. And now he will call for civil disobedience if the outcomes are not favourable for him. Amazing, isn't it?!!

What is really happening is that he is bringing into international discredit of Mexican institutions.

This so called fragile de democracy from which M. López claims to defend is being destroyed by him self. We hope that all this drama will be over soon and in a proper way, if not it will be hard to have a "Happy End".

It is interesting to see how media has completely swallowed everyting Lopez Obrador has said. It would not take much investigative journalism to find out about his own shady past. Just take this about the protesters camping in DF? Who are they? If they are so poor, how can they be away from their jobs for several weeks? Who pays for this manifestation? What about possible fraud in electoral districts that the PRD won?
Calderon is not a particularly good candidate, but he won fair and square.

Here is a freebie for all the AMLO hate club. Ooops... little Ahumada has fessed up that he was part of a government complot to stop Lopez Obrador from becoming president.... noooooooo really? and I thought it was just Lopez Obrador playing victim because he likes it so much. So much in fact people say he stuffed the ballot boxes with extra ballots for Calderon so he could become a danger to Mexico later on. Now where is Diego so he can explain who else was involved in the plot?

How funny it is to read a bunch of spot repeating robots. And now we even have Fox champions! ha ha ha

Confiesa Ahumada planeación de videoescándalos
Redacción EL UNIVERSAL.com.mx
El Universal
Ciudad de México
Viernes 18 de agosto de 2006

Difunden nuevas imágenes del empresario donde señala a actores políticos con los que pretendió negociar un fraude millonario

09:24 Las imágenes de René Bejarano con los maletines de billetes, las de Gustavo Ponce en las mesas de juego de Las Vegas o las negociaciones con Carlos Ímaz, fueron planeadas por Carlos Ahumada para su protección personal por la acusación de un fraude millonario.

Esta mañana, en el noticiario de Carmen Aristegui, la periodista presentó un nuevo video donde el empresario argentino confiesa que estas imágenes las pretendió negociar con el Gobierno federal y otros autores políticos para conseguir una protección por la acusación de fraude de 31 millones de pesos y ampliar sus negocios en otras partes de la República.

La declaración de Ahumada Kurtz menciona a Diego Fernández de Cevallos y las negociaciones que gestó en el hotel Presidente para su protección y cómo no cumplieron algunos de los tratos. También al ex presidente Carlos Salinas de Gortari, al ex secretario de Gobernación Santiago Creel Miranda, el ex procurador Rafael Macedo de la Concha.

Señala que la grabación de los videoescándalos sí pretendían frenar el paso de López Obrador a la Presidencia.

El video de 11 minutos corresponderían a los interrogatorios a los que fue sometido Ahumada Kurtz en su declaración después de ser capturado en Cuba.

Aquí se observa al argentino con una camisa negra, sentado en un sillón floreado y en la parte de atrás, una cortina blanca. En esta misma grabación, cambian las imágenes que indican un nuevo interrogatorio.

goc/alcr

As an American citizen wanting to see justice and fair elections around the world, I admire that Mr. López is standing up to the current administration. It is not enough that the party in power declares, "we won, but you can't check to see if it is true". We have witnessed this same tactic in the US for the last six years with, in my opinion, terrible results.

Mr. López has the unique and historic opportunity to do what the United States has been unable or unwilling to do - peacefully fight for a fair election. And by the fact that poor, middle class and rich alike are joining with him, at personal risk and financial loss, makes a statement that their country is truly important to them.

I hope we in the US will do the same if another "close" election happens.

Vivi

Or is it Vivi Peron, as in Eva. You signed out at 12:06 AM and kept going with another 14 posts before quitting at 02:41AM
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´Focos rojos´

El gobierno de Vicente Fox amenaza con terminar en un desastre político y social. En las próximas semanas los mexicanos habremos de estar pagando los costos de la incapacidad, la ambición, la falta de visión de estado, la aplicación de la justicia selectiva, la impunidad y la frivolidad que han caracterizado a este régimen.

Pero sobre todo, estaremos expiando la monstruosa traición a la democracia perpetrada por Fox y su círculo cercano. La historia jamás le perdonará que siendo el primer beneficiario de este proceso democrático se haya empeñado en una reelección de estado a conveniencia: primero en la persona de su propia esposa, la señora Marta, intento que abortó gracias a la denuncia de Alfonso Durazo; luego, Fox pretendería prolongarse en un incondicional como Santiago Creel, quien para lograrlo vendió los más vergonzantes favores; finalmente, el presidente tuvo que aceptar la candidatura de Felipe Calderón y volcarse en ella no únicamente para garantizar su triunfo sino para proteger a la familia Fox-Sahagún-Bibriesca.

Lo grave es que, en todos estos años y en paralelo, Fox se ha empeñado en la destrucción del principal enemigo de sus intereses. El único adversario político que podía cambiar sus planes de continuismo en automático. Así, la tentativa de exterminio de Andrés Manuel López Obrador fue no sólo una constante, sino el principal propósito del gobierno foxista. Su prioridad máxima: "Ése... de ninguna manera".

Creo que sólo con este recuento se explica el actual estado de cosas. Un país dividido y confrontado. De un lado, los inconformes, que van desde los que ganan la calle para reclamar porque les quieren quitar el triunfo hasta los grupos extremos fuera de control y trepados en los cerros. Del otro, quienes invocan la infalibilidad de las instituciones para amacizar un conteo y transformarlo en un resultado inapelable. Lo malo es que no hay confianza ni credibilidad en una contienda apabullada por la sospecha de un presidente tramposo cuando debió haber sido el gran árbitro político que la nación le demandaba.

Por eso hoy nos pesan como una loza las consecuencias de esa escandalosa intervención de Fox en la sucesión presidencial: las sufre, por supuesto, un combativo AMLO; pero las padece también un Felipe Calderón que no acaba de convencer y las aguanta apenas todo un país que no merece este grado de incertidumbre.

Por ello hay que evaluar con extremo cuidado lo que ocurra en los próximos y críticos días. Las dos semanas más largas del nuevo siglo. Este lunes el TEPJF habrá de resolver sobre el recuento en las ya célebres 11 mil 839 casillas (apenas el 9% del total de 130 mil) que se han auscultado en los días recientes.

Que para el PAN refrendan el triunfo de Felipe porque "nada más ha habido irregularidades menores en apenas 25% de las casillas". En cambio, para la coalición Por el Bien de Todos "es una prueba del cochinero generalizado y la evidencia de que sí hubo un sesgo inocultable para favorecer a Calderón y perjudicar a López Obrador".

Ya EL UNIVERSAL documentaba también la extraña desaparición de boletas, cuyo número llegaría ahora a 70 mil y que son otro de los grandes misterios de esta elección que, después de todo, no rechina de limpia y que por el contrario es un catálogo de trácalas y torpezas. Cosas que sólo se explican por una pésima capacitación electoral de esa pesadilla llamada IFE, una manipulación ex profeso y concertada desde el poder o el lavado cerebral de Fox sobre el "peligro para México" que llevó a muchos de los participantes a cometer sus pequeños "fraudes patrióticos" para impedir que AMLO llegue a la Presidencia. De otra manera no se explican la cauda de tropelías y dislates.

Pero es el TEPJF quien decidirá si de veras se trata de insignificancias o de la suciedad absoluta; si se modifican y en qué proporción los números del IFE o si se anulan cuántas casillas y cuánto varía el conteo. En paralelo, ha de resolver sobre otros recursos e impugnaciones en jornadas que nos parecerán eternas de aquí al 31 de agosto. Al que sigue por cierto el 1 de septiembre, el día del último informe del desgobierno de Fox.
Mientras tanto, ahí están Oaxaca, Chiapas, el Paseo de la Reforma y tantos otros focos rojos en la geografía de la nación, a punto del estallido.

Anyone who is truly objective can see that there is fraud in th the Mexican elections!
-ballot boxes that were supposed to be sealed opened, some emptied, many with excess ballots.
-an everage of an extra 15 votes per ballot box
-if the PAN has nothing to hide why would they reject a recount? If I were Calderon and had legitimately won I would want every vote recounted to end the strife

Jueves, agosto 17, 2006
EL VIDEO QUE PUBLICÓ LA JORNADA

Un video con evidencias del fraude electoral en 7 distritos... se me hace que éste, tampoco lo va a querer pasar Joaquín Lopez doriga televisa.

Jueves 17 de agosto de 2006

Se ven paquetes abiertos, sobres desgarrados y votos sin doblar

Video muestra violaciones en siete distritos electorales
Si se anulan las 7 mil 532 casillas con anomalías gana AMLO: Sheinbaum

JAIME AVILES

Secuencia del dvd. La primera gráfica corresponde al distrito 1 de Morelos, donde se aprecia un paquete abierto y votos fuera del sobre; en la siguiente, del distrito 12 de Veracruz, se ven sufragios sin doblar que no entraron por la ranura de la urna; en la tercera, sobres violados en el distrito 2 del estado de México, y en la cuarta, paquetes abiertos en el distrito 6 de Baja California
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, vocera de la coalición Por el Bien de Todos, entregó ayer a este diario un dvd con evidencias de violación de paquetes electorales en siete distritos del país.

Las escenas, disponibles en la edición electrónica de este periódico (www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas) muestran paquetes electorales carentes de los sellos oficiales que exige la ley; sobres de la elección presidencial desgarrados o vueltos a cerrar con cinta adhesiva; boletas electorales que no fueron dobladas para ser introducidas por la ranura de las urnas y, coincidentemente, marcadas en favor del candidato del Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, entre otras muestras de lo que Sheinbaum insistió en calificar de ''fraude masivo''.

La vocera reiteró ayer que si el Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación (TEPJF) ''anula los resultados de 7 mil 532 casillas en las que el recuento ordenado por los magistrados probó que hubo alteraciones graves, se confirmará que Andrés Manuel López Obrador ganó las elecciones del 2 de julio''.

Los distritos electorales donde fueron videograbadas las infracciones al Código Federal de Instituciones y Procedimientos Electorales (Cofipe) son el 12 de Veracruz, el 3 de Durango, el 1 de Morelos, el 6 de Baja California, el 8 de Nuevo León y el 2 y el 3 del estado de México, pero ''prácticamente en los 149 distritos donde el tribunal electoral ordenó el recuento parcial de votos, repito, en prácticamente todos, encontramos paquetes abiertos, sobres desgarrados, votos de más que fueron taqueados y votos de menos que le robaron directamente a nuestra coalición''.

Sheinbaum ratificó que del total de 11 mil 839 casillas en las que el tribunal ordenó el recuento, en 3 mil 873 (33 por ciento) ''fueron introducidos ilegalmente 58 mil 56 votos, lo que da un promedio de tres sufragios por casilla, en favor de Felipe Calderón''. Al mismo tiempo, añadió, en 3 mil 659 casillas (31 por ciento) ''fueron retirados de manera ilegal, o para decir más rápido, se robaron 61 mil 688 votos, lo que da también un promedio de 3.2 votos por casilla que le fueron descontados ilegalmente a López Obrador''.

Así, resumió Sheinbaum Pardo, ''en 7 mil 532 casillas hubo 119 mil votos alterados, 58 mil 56 que sobran y 61 mil 688 que faltan, pero si proyectamos estos datos al resto de las casillas (91 por ciento) de la elección, estaríamos hablando de 149 mil 653 votos de más para el candidato del PAN y 692 mil 299 votos menos para Andrés Manuel López Obrador que fueron extraídos ilegalmente de los paquetes electorales''.

Causas de anulación

Claudia Sheinbaum recordó que la Ley General del Sistema de Medios de Impugnación en Materia Electoral del Cofipe establece en su artículo 75 las ''causales de nulidad'' de las casillas, entre las cuales destaca las señaladas por el inciso k, según el cual los resultados de una casilla se anularán si existen ''irregularidades graves, plenamente acreditadas y no reparables durante la jornada electoral, o en la actas de escrutinio y cómputo que en forma evidente pongan en duda la certeza de la votación".

El recuento ordenado por el tribunal electoral, continuó la vocera de la coalición, ''puso de manifiesto que hubo una falsificación dolosa de las actas de escrutinio, porque se anotaron en miles de ellas (y por lo pronto estamos hablando de más de 7 mil) números de votos que claramente no reflejan la voluntad de los electores, dando una variación de 81 por ciento entre los datos presentados por el Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) y los nuevos datos que mostró el conteo''.

En el video que Sheinbaum entregó a este diario aparecen paquetes, como los del distrito 6 de Baja California, en los que las tapas de las cajas que guardan los sobres papalotean de un lado a otro a medida que avanza la carretilla que las transporta desde la bodega hasta la sala del consejo distrital.

En otra escena, correspondiente al distrito 1 de Morelos, los jueces muestran a la cámara los sobres que contienen los votos y que presentan desgarraduras y otras anomalías que evidencian una manipulación ilegal para alterar los resultados de los comicios.

¿Cómo sucedió esto? Un video presentado por Julio Hernández López, en el programa televisivo de Víctor Trujillo, el pasado lunes -que también está a disposición del público en la página electrónica de este diario-, captó la siguiente escena.

Supuestos empleados del IFE abren y manipulan ilegalmente el contenido de los paquetes del distrito 5, de la ciudad de México, con sede en la delegación Tlalpan.

Dispositivo de seguridad en torno a la Cámara de Diputados Foto María Meléndrez Parada
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Hasta el momento, dijo ayer Claudia Sheinbaum, ''es sintómatico el estado de indefensión en que se encuentra la ciudadanía ante el hecho de que la Fiscalía Especial para la Atención de Delitos Electorales (Fepade, adscrita a la Procuraduría General de la República) no haya hecho ningún comentario acerca de este episodio, ni procedido a actuar legalmente contra los mapaches que en el video son fácilmente identificables''.

Sheinbaum Pardo recordó que la semana pasada, después de una acción de resistencia civil pacífica realizada por partidarios de López Obrador en distintas casetas de peaje, la PGR anunció que ''analizaría los videos que les tomaron a los participantes para actuar contra ellos, pero no ha dicho lo mismo acerca de los que salen en el video del distrito 5 violando los paquetes electorales y cometiendo fraude contra la voluntad popular''.

A la vocera no le extrañó que la PGR actúe así, porque ''hace unos días la coalición demostró que la Fepade solicitó información estadística para defender jurídicamente a Felipe Calderón de la impugnación que presentamos nosotros. Por todo esto llamamos a los magistrados del tribunal electoral a no cerrar los ojos ante el cúmulo de evidencias de fraude que ahora estamos documentando con videos y los instamos a ordenar el recuento de todos los votos de la elección presidencial del 2 de julio, porque el pueblo de México merece saber la verdad y tener un presidente legítimo, no un impostor espurio''.

La página electrónica de La Jornada tuvo el año pasado más de mil 300 millones de visitas certificadas por la Dirección General de Cómputo Académico de la UNAM, lo que habla de un promedio de 3.5 millones de visitas al día, un dato que, en opinión de Sheinbaum, tomó en cuenta la coalición ''para dar a conocer en todo el mundo'' las pruebas del fraude electoral a través de este diario.

Para localizar en la página electrónica de La Jornada este nuevo video con pruebas de fraude electoral, sólo es necesario entrar en Internet y enseguida teclear www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas.

There are a few journalist that make a very good job:

CARMEN ARISTEGUI REVELA VIDEO DE AHUMADA

Sale esta nota de El Universal:

Confiesa Ahumada planeación de videoescándalos

Redacción EL UNIVERSAL.com.mx
El Universal
Ciudad de México
Viernes 18 de agosto
de 2006

Difunden nuevas imágenes del empresario donde señala a actores políticos con los que pretendió negociar un fraude millonario

09:24 Las imágenes de René Bejarano con los maletines de billetes, las de Gustavo Ponce en
las mesas de juego de Las Vegas o las negociaciones con Carlos Ímaz, fueron planeadas por Carlos Ahumada para su protección personal por la acusación de un fraude millonario.

Esta mañana, en el noticiario de Carmen Aristegui, la periodista presentó un nuevo video donde el empresario argentino confiesa que estas imágenes las pretendió negociar con el Gobierno federal y otros autores políticos para conseguir una protección por la acusación de fraude de 31
millones de pesos y ampliar sus negocios en otras partes de la República.

La declaración de Ahumada Kurtz menciona a Diego Fernández de Cevallos y las negociaciones que gestó en el hotel Presidente para su protección y cómo no cumplieron algunos de los tratos. También al ex presidente Carlos Salinas de Gortari, al ex secretario de Gobernación Santiago Creel Miranda, el ex procurador Rafael Macedo de la Concha.

Señala que la grabación de los videoescándalos sí pretendían frenar el paso de López Obrador a la Presidencia.

El video de 11 minutos corresponderían a los interrogatorios a los que fue sometido Ahumada Kurtz en su declaración después de ser capturado en Cuba.

Aquí se observa al argentino con una camisa negra, sentado en un sillón floreado y en la parte de atrás, una cortina blanca. En esta misma grabación, cambian las imágenes que indican un nuevo
interrogatorio.

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Who will stop Mr. Lopez?

Each day that passes he pushes his blind fanatics to civil desobidience; I'm affraid violence might be around the corner. I, as many mexicans, think that President Fox should exercise his presidential and legal powers to start putting order in my country.

Last night it rained, in northern Mexico, Parras de la fuente, Coah. was turned to mud. No drainge to help take away, a killer water, which claimed one life. This in the middle of the desert is rare. Once every couple of years does it rain that way. So, the PRI, or the PAN, doesnt spend tax money, on public drainage, because, u cant see that money spent. As a politician, u cant point at it, like a bridge and say, see, i did it with your taxes. Whats buried underground, is wasted money as they see it. Especially when it rains once or only twice a year, sometimes more, sometimes less. Thats the PRI and PAN, hand in hand, not doing whats needed for the country. Going on what? 80years?
Enough is enough! Now that AMLOs won, real change will be inacted, things will get done, but thats a threat to those who benefit from things just the way they are. Those ppl who line their pockets with special intrests deals that only benefit a few, at the backs of the many.
Democracy is at stake in Mexico, will we the real Mexicans, just stand by, while a dictator from the right, FECAL is imposed on Mexico like some king? He did not win, the partial recount has shown all the irregularites, but that isnt good enuff for the PAN, and their conservative pals. They will never allow AMLO to gain the presidency with a free and open election. Things had been cooked up long b4, 2 prevent just that from happening. Democracy has been hijakced for the sake of the few again. Almost 100 years ago, Mexicans stood up violently against a dictator. Histroy is repeating itself.
By any means necesarry FECAL will be prevented from taking power. Any means.
We wanted a peacefull open and free election. But its apparent that this is not good enuff for the those in power and their cohorts. They have stolen the election, and this will not stand.
We will defend Mexican democracy from the threat, from within, and without, u have been forwarned.
We are Millions, you, only a few hundrend thousands. We have the numbers, We have the arms. U lose!
¡Solucion O Revolucion!

Maya0:

Please grow up.

You don´t want a peaceful and free election, you want AMLO "Adolfo" in power, thats all.

How many people in Mexico actually voted for him? Would you like to find out how many would vote for him in a re-run?

Do you still want a recount? If, as you claim it was fixed, won´t recounting still include those fixed ballots?

And who do you approve of to do the recount? I imagine the only person you would trust to be honest is Adolfo himself.

mayao,

WHO IS MAYAO:

After searching our rabid capitalist pig
database, my employee Dick Morris and his team of dictator vanquisher campaign experts, (oops I was told it's secret, I wasn't supposed to divulge that), as I was saying, it has been brought to my attention just what mayaO's gender is. He/she is the last Neanderthal hermaphrodite of its species. She was developed in Cuban laboratories
and perfected by Fidel-or-Nada zealot anthropologist social engineers.

mayaO does not fool me anymore. She/he is a 500 pound gorilla on the outside with an inner Tinkerbell afraid to be revealed. A hermaphrodite gorilla, but very lovely if you are patient. She is vulnerable, as Hermaphrodite Neanderthals go, don't let that gorilla exterior fool you. She's really a foul mouth Tinkerbell undeneath it all.

Ceci-- I wonder if you ever thought how such a situation would be handled in Washington? What would the president do if the city government, in open violation of its own laws, allowed protesters to shut down the center of the city, attack the Congress, the Supreme Court and other important institutions, and block, with threats of violence, the beltway and other highways leading into the city?

President Fox has shown restraint, partly, I am sure, because the longer AMLO and the crazies of the PRD and other left/communist parties carry on this outrage, the more political support they will lose. Still, at some point, the president has to act to defend the people he is supposed to represent.

Of course, if he ever does act on behalf of the citizens to prevent violence or damage to property, people like Maya0 will howl about "repression." That is, no doubt, the strategy here. Too bad the court can't simply call for a runoff so that the left-leaning world press would see how few voters show up to support AMLO the next time around.

Once again, Sergio Sarmiento nails it! Read this and understand what is really going on in Mexico!

Sergio Sarmiento

Visión de fuera

"Necesitamos la buena voluntad y respaldo de aquellos en la comunidad internacional con un interés personal, filosófico o comercial en México".

Andrés Manuel López Obrador



¡Cómo ha cambiado la percepción de Andrés Manuel López Obrador a nivel internacional! Un ejemplo lo tenemos en The Economist, el semanario británico que es en buena medida la Biblia del pensamiento liberal en el mundo.

En su número del 1o. de julio, publicado un día antes de la elección presidencial mexicana, The Economist respaldaba la candidatura de López Obrador en un editorial que se llamaba "Change, Please" ("Cambio, por favor"). En este texto los editores de la revista argumentaban que lo que "México necesita es un Presidente radical" para acabar con la parálisis legislativa y enfrentar el problema de la desigualdad social.

En un artículo de fondo en el mismo número, The Economist identificaba a López Obrador como un candidato de "centro-izquierda" y aceptaba sin cuestionamiento -sin siquiera la acostumbrada mención formal de la posición del "otro lado"- la afirmación de López Obrador de que el juicio por el desafuero había sido un intento ilegal del presidente Vicente Fox para impedirle llegar a la Presidencia de la República.

Con el paso de las semanas, la percepción ha cambiado de manera gradual pero constante. Este mes de agosto The Economist tilda a López Obrador de mal perdedor en un artículo titulado "Sore Loser" que señalaba los abusos del "poder popular" con sus manifestaciones y bloqueos.

The Economist no es la única publicación internacional que ha cambiado su posición frente a López Obrador. Otras y muy respetadas, como El País de España, el New York Times y el Washington Post de Estados Unidos, han ido cambiando su posición sobre el candidato de la alianza Por el Bien de Todos. De una cobertura aprobatoria, incluso en las primeras acusaciones de fraude al sistema electoral que lanzó el tabasqueño, han pasado a una creciente incredulidad y exasperación. Todos estos periódicos han publicado editoriales en que piden a López Obrador respetar el resultado de la elección y la decisión del Tribunal Electoral.

A esto hay que señalar la posición expresada por el presidente del gobierno español, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, del Partido Socialista Obrero Español, un partido que el PRD considera cercano a sus posiciones, quien también ha recomendando a López Obrador aceptar el resultado de la elección.

Quizá por eso López Obrador tomó la decisión de buscar apoyo internacional publicando un artículo en el New York Times la semana pasada. En un momento en que su apoyo dentro de México empieza a desvanecerse, especialmente como consecuencia del políticamente desastroso bloqueo del Paseo de la Reforma y del centro de la Ciudad de México, el perredista necesita más que nunca el apoyo de la comunidad internacional.

Se ve poco claro, sin embargo, que ese apoyo vaya a resurgir tan fácilmente. Como lo mencionaba en su editorial esta semana el Washington Post, los esfuerzos de Andrés Manuel por probar el fraude han resultado infructuosos. La acusación de que se había registrado un fraude cibernético cayó por tierra cuando los analistas internacionales se percataron de que en México no se vota de manera electrónica sino con boletas físicas. La afirmación de que el gobierno y los funcionarios del IFE habían rellenado urnas, que parecía comprobarse con la difusión de un video de una casilla en Guanajuato, se desplomó cuando se comprobó que lejos de rellenar urnas los funcionarios de casilla, con el asentimiento de la representante de la coalición Por el Bien de Todos, habían simplemente pasado un grupo de boletas a la urna que correspondía. Las protestas por falta de legalidad se han desvanecido conforme ha quedado en claro que el PRD no acepta ni las posiciones del IFE, ni las decisiones del Tribunal Electoral ni ninguna decisión que no sea el reconocimiento de un triunfo que todo parece indicar no obtuvo.

Hay, por supuesto, en el mundo una izquierda radical que comparte la afirmación de López Obrador de que un "triunfo de la derecha es moralmente imposible". Es este mismo grupo el que le ha dado apoyo al Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional y a organizaciones radicales como al-Qaida. El problema del PRD era que desde hace años había tratado de ganarse un lugar entre las organizaciones de izquierda democrática en el mundo y no las de carácter radical. Su acercamiento al Partido Socialista Obrero Español o al Partido Socialista chileno parecía señalar un compromiso con la democracia y un abandono de las tácticas de choque que usó el partido en Tabasco en 1994 y 1995. Pero hoy ese avance empieza a desmoronarse conforme queda en evidencia que a López Obrador no le interesan la democracia o el impulso de las causas sociales sino que vive obsesionado por conseguir el poder.

mayaO,

Herr mayaO, as in Herrmaphrodite mayaO. Pound and pound the drums of war you go. Up and down Reforma, say it ain't so. Mucho
noise, poco nuts! Let's come together. Can't we all get along?

mariel navarro,

So Lopez has his singing canary singing the complo song. Viente has his own singing canary, Gustavo Ponce, wrapped in
Almoloya, rearing and ready to start his song!

And now this story.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is Kidnapped.
The ransom is set at 100,000.00 U.S.Dlls. or he will be burned alive.
A public collection of funds is set at the Zocalo.
After one day the total amount is 150,000.00 Dlls. with the following description.
1. 1,000.00 Dlls in cash.
2. 1,500.00 Dlls in lighters.
3. 48,000.00 Dlls in gasoline.
4. 99,500.00 Dll in green wood.
T.150,000.oo

Viva Felipe, Lopez you must go. You're not president. I say so.

Patadas de ahogado.

That is all Mr. Lopez Obrador and his acolytes are doing.
What supporters but radical leftists and anti-globalization punks like the ones invading these blogs?
What support from the people? The Plantones are and have been empty almost entirely in 18 days., that is not a planton, it is a simulation of a planton, same as a fraud simulation that nobody has been able to prove.
Even the imbeciles at Global Exchange who say they support a recount they said they do support it on the basis of the results being so close.
So if there is another recount and the results are again too close, there will be another recount again?
Why is it so hard to stomach that Felipe Calderon won?
Get a job!

Check this out to find out where those imbeciles and hypocrites of Global Exchange come from:

Deborah James , de la ONG Global Exchange, Trabaja para Hugo Chávez, en Washington, Global Exchange reclama el "voto por voto".
En la pagina de Internet de Venezuela Information Office, está como directora ejecutiva.
VIO es la oficina de propaganda de Chávez en EU, entre el público y el Congreso; y cobra 5,333 dólares mensuales.
James depende de Caracas, lo que confirma, una vez más, la intromisión de Chávez en México.

This is the kind of dirty politics Hugo Chavez is into. He is attacking the federal government and trying to defend AMLO at the same time. The videos presented by Ahumada came after Hugo Chavez visited Cuba two days ago. Hugo Chavez is trying to get revenge from Mexico who does not support his candidacy to a seat in the UN security council.
Blackmailing is what this people are all about.

Vivi,

Lord Windsor has commented that this is an English site. Last I saw more than 12 hours later it still is. Stop pasting Spanish texts or pejistas will be ignored.
Please, thank you.

An option is that you paste your Spanish text in google's translating page and then drag the translated text here. Thank you.

Maya0

How are the floods in Parras de la Fuente different from the floods in the DF on August 3rd? Why haven't 9 years of enlightened PRD government solved the flooding there? Did they also ignore the need for a good drainage system and build the useless second floors?

I just want to know. There is no need to rant.

Maya0

Is someone paying you to discredit the Mexican left or are you doing it all by yourself?

Instead of seeing the way things actually are in Mexico, terrible, as they always have been under the PRI PAN systum, their suppoters cannot see any other way. They dont answer real questions, they just attack with thier lame insults, that please no one but themselves. A tiny percentage of Mexico, these dull people are, we are the millions, we have the numbers, and we will not allow a dictator of the right, FECAL to take power in Mexico. rodollputo and Peter the dick, emptynuts and other fools from the right, have no notion what life is, in the real Mexico. Try going into the profeco site and chking what gas stations in Mexico, steal, when they sell gasoline, if u can even get in. More than 46percent of gas stations, privately own, (theirs no monopoly their), steal at the gas pumps. This is the real Mexico, the Mexico where nada pasa, well, eso ya paso.
AMLO is change, like it or not. Here we come, where millions, your just a few hundrend thousands, we have the numbers, we have the arms. U lose!
¡Solucion O Revolucion!

PeterN,

I translated, via google, Vivi's screed. With this new secret tool mayaO will be my
second favorite author. For now google rules.

The images of René Bejarano with the ticket briefcases, those of Gustavo Ponce in the tables of game of Fertile valleys or the negotiations with Carlos Ímaz, were planned by Carlos Smoked for their personal protection by the accusation of a millionaire fraud. This morning, in the noticiario of Carmen Aristegui, the journalist presented/displayed a new video where the Argentine industralist confesses that these images tried them to negotiate with the federal Government and other political authors to obtain a protection by the accusation of fraud of 31 million dollars and to extend their businesses in other parts of the Republic. The declaration of Smoky Kurtz mentions to Diego Fernandez de Cevallos and the negotiations that President for his protection developed in the hotel and how they did not fulfill some of the treatments. Also to ex- president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, to the ex- secretary of Interior Santiago Creel Miranda, the ex- solicitor Rafael Macedo of the Shell. It indicates that the recording of the videoescándalos yes tried to restrain the passage of Lopez Obrador to the Presidency. The video of 11 minutes would correspond to the interrogations which it was put under Smoked Kurtz in his declaration after being captured in Cuba. In the recording, Smoked it says that in 2004 Diego reached an agreement with the senator Fernandez de Cevallos to present the videos corruption by television, but that "they" (Juan Col, Santiago Creel, Rafael Macedo of the Shell) did not fulfill their part of the pact. "I said to Them that I also had an economic problem and that what I wanted I was to work. That in case at the moment lent something to us and to work without problems inside the Republic and in the Federation", it indicated. According to Smoke signal, Fernandez de Cevallos said to him that already Rafael had spoken with the then secretary of Interior Santiago Creel (ex- presidential candidate) and with the ex- solicitor Macedo on the videos that were going away to spread. "This yes knew the secretary to it of Interior and yes the solicitor general of the Republic knew to it. To me to me it becomes very difficult that (being) a subject of this size that the president of the Republic did not know it", indicated Smoky. The objective era "practically, to remove to Andrés Manuel from the presidential race" for 2006, indicated. Here it is observed the Argentinean with a black shirt, seated in a floreado armchair and the part of back, a white curtain. In this same recording, they change the images that indicate a new interrogation. goc/alcr

I love Mexican elections. Do you understand this "story"? We Mexicans are talking like this among ourselves. Enjoy.

Rodolfo, Peter, empty, I realize you guys enjoy playing with your pets, specially the newest one, but have they had all their shots? All that frothing at the mouth makes me wonder ...

In all seriousness, what do you think the real impact of the Bejarano tapes will be? One thing that stands out to me is that apparently Ahumada TRIED to negotiate to get protection something he obviously hasn't gotten. My general read would indicate that negotiations fell appart for whatever reason but Ahumada still used the videos on his own, otherwise there's no point in outing his "partners" or protectors.

mayaO,

No way Josehermaphrodite, we will not go.
Lopez is ugly, you tell him so. We're unhappy, getting angry and you know. Stop this now or to hell you go. Not happy to see so slow the Rayo of Hope stay in Zocalo
far too long. Solucion: Lopez go to Cuba, Fidel loves loquitos, he is so.

Orellana,

As I write this Ciro Gomez Leyva read an interview he did with Ahumada 2 years ago in jail. In it Ahumada tells Ciro that anything and everything they put in front of him he signed. Today's tape was given anonymously to the morning radio show. Ciro says the ONLY source can be the Cuban embassy. Ahumada also says that the taped interviews
were rehearsed time and time again until the Cuban videographers were satisfied.

Fox won't need Ponce just yet.

TG: zing! Great answer on the flooding thing.

I don't know if you guys have signed Dehesa's petition, but don't forget to do so: http://www.despejalaciudad.org.mx/

RODOLFO MAYBE YOU NEED MORE CULTURE TO UNDERSTAND THE DEMOCRACY AND MAYBE SOME CLASSES OF SPANISH.
I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND.
I´M A MEXICAN CITZEN AND I CAN READ ENGLISH
AND YOU?

Jueves, August 17, the 2006 VIDEO THAT PUBLISHED the DAY A video with evidences of the electoral fraud in 7 districts... is done to me that this one, is not going it either to want to pass Joaquin Lopez doriga televises. Thursday 17 of August of 2006 Opened packages are seen, you exceed torn and votes without doubling Video shows violations in seven electoral districts If the 7 thousand 532 squares with anomalies are annulled gains AMLO: Sheinbaum JAIME AVILES Sequence of dvd. The first graph corresponds to district 1 of Morelos, where it is appraised an open package and votes outside on; in the following one, of district 12 of Veracruz, suffrages without doubling are seen that they did not enter by the groove of the ballot box; in third, you exceed violet in district 2 of the state of Mexico, and in the fourth, packages opened in district 6 of Baja California Claudia Brown Sheinbaum, spokeswoman of the coalition By the Good of All, gave yesterday to this newspaper dvd with evidences of violation of electoral packages in seven districts of the country. The scenes, available in the electronic edition of this newspaper (www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas) show devoid electoral packages of the official seals that the law demands; exceed of the presidential election torn or returned to close with sticky tape; electoral tickets that were not doubled to be introduced by the groove of the ballot boxes and, coincidently, marked in favor of the candidate of the Party National Action (BREAD), Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, among other samples of which Sheinbaum insisted on describing as ' ' fraud masivó'. The spokeswoman reiterated yesterday that if the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) ' ' annuls the results of 7 thousand 532 squares in which the count ordered by the magistrates proved that there were serious alterations, will be confirmed that Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador gained the elections of the 2 of julió'. The electoral districts where the infractions to the Federal Code of Institutions were videograbadas and Electoral Procedures (Cofipe) are the 12 of Veracruz, the 3 of Durango, the 1 of Morelos, the 6 of Baja California, the 8 again Leon and the 2 and the 3 of the state of Mexico, but ' ' practically in the 149 districts where the electoral court ordered the partial count of votes, I repeat, in practically all, we found opened packages, you exceed torn, votes of more than were taqueados and votes of less than directly robbed to ours coalición'' to him. Sheinbaum ratified that of the total of 11 thousand 839 squares in which the court ordered the count, in 3 thousands 873 (33 percents) ' ' were introduced 58 thousand 56 votes illegally, which gives an average of three suffrages by square, in please Felipe Calderón''. At the same time, it added, in 3 thousand 659 squares (31 percents) ' ' they were retired of illegal way, or to say more express, robbed 61 thousand 688 votes, which also gives an average of 3,2 votes by square that were discounted to Lopez Obrador'' illegally. Thus, it summarized Brown Sheinbaum, ' ' in 7 thousand 532 squares were 119 thousand altered votes, 58 thousands 56 that exceed and 61 thousands 688 that lacks, but if we projected these data to the rest of the squares (91 percents) of the election, we would be speaking of 149 thousand 653 votes of more for the candidate of the BREAD and 692 thousand 299 votes less for Andrés Manuel the Lopez Obrador who were illegally extracted of the packages electorales''. Causes of cancellation Claudia Sheinbaum remembered that the General Law of the Means System of Opposition in Electoral Matter of the Cofipe establishes in its article the 75 ' ' causal ones of nulidad' ' of the squares, between which emphasizes the indicated ones by the interjection k, according to which the results of a square will be annulled if serious irregularities, totally credited and nonreparables exist ' ' during the electoral day, or in acts of scrutiny and calculation that in evident form put in doubt the certainty of the voting ". The count ordered by the electoral court, continued the spokeswoman of the coalition, ' ' it showed that was a dolosa falsification of scrutiny acts, because they were written down in thousand of them (and so far we are speaking of more than 7 thousands) numbers of votes that do not reflect the will of the voters clearly, giving a variation of 81 percents between the data presented/displayed by Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) and the new data that conteó' showed. In the video that Sheinbaum gave to this newspaper appear packages, like those of district 6 of Baja California, in which the covers of the boxes that keep you exceed them papalotean from a side to another one as it advances the wheelbarrow that transports them from the warehouse to the room of the distrital advice. In another scene, corresponding to district 1 of Morelos, the judges show the camera you exceed them that they contain the votes and that they present/display it tear and other anomalies that demonstrate an illegal manipulation to alter the results of the elections. How happened this? A video presented/displayed by Julio Hernandez Lopez, in the televising program of Víctor Trujillo, the past Monday - that also is to disposition of the public in the electronic page of this newspaper -, caught the following scene. Supposed employees of the IFE they illegally open and they manipulate the content of the packages of district 5, of the city of Mexico, with seat in the Tlalpan delegation. Safety around the House of Representatives Photo Maria Meléndrez Stopped 0 Until the moment, said Claudia Sheinbaum yesterday, ' ' is sintómatico the defenselessness state in which the citizenship is before the fact that the Special Office of the public prosecutor for the Attention of Electoral Crimes (Fepade, assigned to the Office of the judge advocate general General of the Republic) has not commentd out any about this episode, nor come to act legally against the raccoons that in the video are easily identificables''. Brown Sheinbaum remembered that the week last, after a pacific civil resistance made by those in favor of Lopez Obrador in different houses from toll, the PGR announced that ' ' would analyze the videos that took the participants them to act against them, but has not said the same about that they leave in the video of district 5 violating the electoral packages and committing fraud against the will popular''. To the spokeswoman it was not strange to him that the PGR acts thus, because ' ' days ago the coalition demonstrated that the Fepade asked for statistical information to legally defend Felipe Calderón of the opposition that we presented/displayed. By all this we called to the magistrates of the electoral court not to close the eyes before the accumulation of fraud evidences that now we are documenting with videos and we urged them to order the count of all the votes of the presidential election of the 2 of July, because the town of Mexico deserves to know the truth and to have a legitimate president, not an imposter espurió'. The electronic page of the Day had the last year more than thousand 300 million visits certified by the Main directorate of Academic Calculation of the UNAM, which speaks of an average of 3,5 million visits to the day, a data that, in opinion of Sheinbaum, took into account the coalition ' ' to present in all mundó ' the tests the electoral fraud through this newspaper. In order to locate in the electronic page of the Day this new video with tests of electoral fraud, it is only necessary to enter Internet and immediately to key in www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas.

So now the Peje fanatics are fingering themselves with the new video tape shown by Carmen Aristegui.
It is OK, the only thing is that is does not prove anything, contributes anything, and if those videos, produced by the Cubans, only show one single thing is how desperate AMLO is.
But we have been here before, this Ahumada revisited, Peje revisited.
Truth is, AMLO's informative assemblies are not getting anymore attention in the national and international press. There is nothing he has said we have not heard before and too many contradictions to restore his credibility with the Mexican people.
We still remember how in his first or second or third "informative meeting" he said they were going to resist pacifically and without affecting other people.
They have already affected hundreds of thousands of people who need to drive through Paseo de la Reforma to go to work or business, thousands unemployed from the absence of business, many business closing down, tourism going to other areas of the country, or even worse, other countries.
Let's see how long the perredistas can finger themselves with these videos and the hope their movement will be revived.
It won't last long and already the questions about the origins of the tapes are floating in the air. PRD conecction to Cuba, Mexico's support for Guatemala - Venezuela's attempt to get support for the security council - Hugo Chavez visit to Cuba - Global Exchange demands for a recount - Video filmed in Cuba handed to PRD - Carmen Aristegui.
Patadas de Ahogado.
The TRIFE will confirm Felipe Calderon in a few days. The closer we get, the more desperate actions we will see from these clowns.
Felipe Calderon will have the support of the great mayority of people. Thank you AMLO, thank you PRD.

rodolfo, beggining to hear the same things on W Radio. Hosts mention that apparently this videos were in the possesion of the PRD since Ahumada was in Cuba and think this is a maneuver to distract from AMLO's freefall or payback for Rosario Robles accusing AMLO of betraying her. They also critizice heavily Ortega for saying they were going to present this "evidence" at the TEPJF, because this has nothing to do with what the tribunal is reviewing.

EDUARDO,

I am a Mexican capitalist pig. I can read and the writing on this WPost site is in English and published from inside the USA. How would you like The Pejelagarto's La Jornada forums flooded with endless Wall Street Journal newstories in English. To me this seems haughty and lacking manners.
The use of this site is for free, we should correspond by exercising politeness.

Ricardo Rocha. 14 of August of 2006. ´Focos rojos´ The government of Vicente Fox threatens finishing in a political and social disaster. In the next weeks the Mexicans we will have to be paying the costs of the incapacity, the ambition, the lack of state vision, the application of selective justice, impunity and the frivolity that have characterized to this regime. But mainly, we will be expiando the monstrous treason to the democracy perpetrated by Fox and its near circle. History never will pardon to him that being the first beneficiary of this democratic process it has insisted on a re-election of state to convenience: first in the person of its own wife, Mrs. Marta, attempt that aborted thanks to the denunciation of Alfonso Durazo; soon, Fox would try to extend in an unconditional one like Santiago Creel, that stops to obtain sold it the most shamefaced favors; finally, the president had to accept the candidacy of Felipe Calderón and to turn upside down in her to guarantee his triumph but not solely to protect the Fox-Sahagún-Bibriesca family. The serious thing is that, on all these years and parallel, Fox it has insisted on the destruction of the main enemy of his interests. The only political adversary who could change his plans of continuismo in automatic. Thus, the attempt of extermination of Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador was not only one constant, but the main intention of the foxista government. Its top priority: "That one... of any way". I believe that only with this count the present state of things is explained. A divided and confronted country. Of a side, the inconformes, that go from that gain the street to protest because they want to them to clear the triumph until the extreme groups outside control and twilled braids in hills. Of the other, who invoke the infalibilidad of the institutions to amacizar a count and to transform it into an unquestionable result. The bad thing is that there is confidence nor no credibility in a fight squashed by the suspicion of a cheating president when must have been the great political referee who the nation demanded to him. For that reason today the consequences of that scandalous intervention of Fox in the presidential succession weigh to us like a stoneware: it undergoes them, of course, a combative AMLO; but a Felipe Calderón also suffers who does not finish convincing and a country holds everything hardly that does not deserve east degree of uncertainty. For that reason it is necessary to evaluate with well-taken care of end what it happens in the next and critical days. The two longer weeks of the new century. This Monday the TEPJF will have to solve on the count in the already famous 11 thousand 839 squares (as soon as 9% of the total of 130 thousands) that have been auscultated in the recent days. That for the BREAD they authenticate the triumph of Felipe because "nothing else have been smaller irregularities in hardly 25% of the squares". However, for the coalition By the Good of All "it is a test of the generalized cochinero and the evidence of which yes there was a inocultable slant to favor to Calderón and to harm Lopez Obrador". The UNIVERSAL one already documented also the strange disappearance of tickets, whose number would arrive now at 70 thousands and that they are another one of the great mysteries of this election that, after all, it does not squeak of cleaning and that on the contrary is a catalogue of trácalas and stupidities. Things that are only explained by a terrible electoral qualification of that nightmare called IFE, a manipulation specifically and arranged from the power or the cerebral washing of Fox on the "danger for Mexico" that took to many of the participants to commit its small "patriotic frauds" to prevent that AMLO arrives at the Presidency. Of another way the tail of outrages and dislates are not explained. But it is the TEPJF that will decide if truely it is about insignificancias or the absolute dirt; if the numbers of the IFE are modified and in what proportion or if squares are annulled how many and how much it varies the count. In parallel, it has to solve on other resources and oppositions in days that will seem to us eternal of here to the 31 of August. That it follows the 1 of September by the way, the day of the last report of the anarchy one of Fox. Meanwhile, they are Oaxaca, Chiapas, the red Stroll of the Reformation and so many other centers in the geography of the nation there, to point of the outbreak.

Thanks rodolfo for the translation.

I´ll be back later with some more of my wisdom, gained in my previous incarnation as Lord Dick-Windsor, former ambassador to the arseholes of the world. It was a very heavy burden, trying to understand their rants, their misuse of any language, and of course the constant repeated threat that there were millions of them, and only a few of us.

We use to call it "the right mans burden".

PeterN,

I understand your frustation. If your mother language was Spanish you'd be roaring with laughter. We Mexicans are having a ball using English with Spanish syntax. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes inadvertently. I wouldn't be too worried about the millions. My big worry is my many misspellings. Most of what we write is banter and bombast for effect.

Orellana,

Mexican elections haven't been this fun since the 1920's. Do you have a guess in Chiapas?

¡Chihuahuas!

PLEASE!!!! IF ALL YOU CAN DO IS COPY & PASTE ENTIRE ARTICLES, WHY NOT JUST LOOK FOR SOMEWHERE ELSE TO POST!

Why not give a link, maybe cite a FEW lines from the article, and then give YOUR take on the subject BACKED WITH LOGICAL ARGUMENTS, not with a bunch of name-calling & ranting (except for maya0, we need the humor). If you're going to cite from newspapers with an obvious bias, either left or right, be prepared to defend your viewpoint with something more in-depth. I also think Rodolfo, or whatever the rabid are calling him nowadays, has it right about posting in English; we are guests of the Post after all.

SORRY PeterN BUT RODOLFO DIDN´T TRANSLATE. HE DON´T READ SPANISH AND HE ONLY UNDERSTAND THE
FOXILANDIA NEWS OK.
I SUGGEST BEFORE TO WRITE WE HAVE TO READ THE TWO SIDES OF THE NEWS RODOLFO.

K. Vronna, I guess you can help me here, since I live in Chihuahua, as a capitalist, vote rigging, ex Lord of the territories.

I have heard people use "chihuahua" as a word out of context, is it a way of avoiding saying another word instead? Like some will say "Flipping Hell", or " To heck with that"...

This is a serious question from me, no Spanish book or course teaches you real "street" language, so although I study, a lot of what I hear doesn´t connect. I´ve found that the news is the best way to improve my listening ability, they seem to enunciate better. But I still don´t get most the picture from that, so I enjoy being educated, (and threatened) on this site.

Eduardo:

I don´t know what the etiquette is here, but normally CAPITAL letters indicate shouting or anger in a comment section or e-mail etc.

Effectively, it is very easy to insult or threaten people in this type of communication, things which I´m sure most of us wouldn´t do face to face with someone.

Can we keep it polite?

PeterN: I think it will be something like: ALAS
It expresses grief or misfortune.

We say chihuahua! When for example somebody doesn't show up to an appointment also. It alse expresses disappoinment.
"To heck with that" will be something like: a la chingada!

We use chihuahua! and it is accepted, it is not street language or slang, it is more a very Mexican expression but it does not offend people so you can use it in any situation or context.

Like when people use HECK instead of HELL.

I hope that helped.

PeterN, aka Peter Windsor, Lord Dick, etc.,

Yeah, the interjection "¡Chihuahuas!" is a euphemism for the "ch" word. Like we use "¡chin!" or "¡Híjole!".

EVERYBODY:

Sheinbaum Remembers her old days as Enviroment Secretary:

A fact that the Special Office of the public prosecutor for the Attention of Electoral Crimes (Fepade, assigned to the Office of the judge advocate general General of the Republic) has not commentd out any about this episode, nor come to act legally against the raccoons that in the video are easily identificables''. Brown Sheinbaum remembered that the week last.

emptyboxes,

Pejeloco is grasping at straws and he knows it. This Ahumada stunt is Castro's
baby.

EDUARDO,

What I have come to realize is that I don't buy the lefty side and leftists don't buy the capitalist pig side. I see what I want to see and you do the same. The only thing that makes things in this election less tense is to use humor to acknowledge we are hopelessly talking to a wall and laugh in the process.

What is going on with these PRD imbeciles?
Do they actually think for a minute that their sorry and shabby candidate will ever become president of something?

maya0: What is going on with your revolution? I fail to see anybody at the plantones, they are all empty, is it a revolution of empty canopies?
The empty canopies are going to come and get me and all Panistas. I can use a good canopy for my backyard.

Those canopy manufactures in DF are going to have a lot of work. I think I should invest in a good canopy shop, maybe I get a contract from Noruña.

Here comes the Canopy Revolution.
Solution or Canopy Revolution!

rodolfo, I don't think I'd bet whatever the odds on the Chiapas result, lets put it that way. Still, the PRD is too strong there, I think. We'll see.

Peter, I've got something to cheer you up:

picture some female cheerleaders yelling
Reeeaaaaady??? Ok!
We've got spirit
Yes we do!
We've got Death Threats
Just for you!

As a fringe benefit you can picture the barbarian in a cheeleader outfit. :-)

emptyboxes and K. Vronna:

Thanks for that info.

Remembering a few instances, I think I can see how people were using both your slightly different definitions.

Thanks again.

K Vrona,

I used to be rodoputo. I have been upgraded/degraded to rodollputo!

Ariel R. Orellana:

Good one, thanks.

To be really British, I must say that the sun is certainly over the yard arm, anyone fancy a pint? I´m afraid there´s no cocktails, and even worse, no Guiness, but some of these Mexican beers do hit the spot on a hot day like this.

Chiapas election.

The last poll I saw was the one from Reforma, and both PRD and PRI Candidates had the same percentages with the PAN candidate with 11 percent and the PANAL some 2.

My guess is that after the first weeks of July and after AMLO´s second meeting at the zocalo, he has gone from being an asset for the PRD Candidate of Chiapas to being a liability.
The national television networks have consistently shown the discredit of the Plantones and the negative image the PRD is getting at the DF is trickling down to all states, Chiapas included.

Some of the polls about the Chiapas election mentioned in some tv programs, like Trujillo´s, were the Mitowsky and the one from El Universal. Both of them were taken during the fist and second week of July, and they were slow at showing any toll taken by the local PRD Candidate from the negative image the PRD is getting in DF because of the plantones and AMLO´s reactions to the results.

Something always strikes me about mitowsky and el universal polls, and it is that they always either take a long time to analyse the information from the days they phisically take the polls to the day they publish them. During the Presidential campaign, mitoswky failed to show the polls form March when Calderon was very high in most polls. They actually skipped it. El Universal did not skip any but their poll dates were always from 2 or 3 weeks before.
That is why I prefer Reforma´s polls, they take the poll and take two days to publish them, when they are telephone polls, they publish them the very next day.

Based on the last Reforma´s poll about the Chiapas election, which was taken two weeks ago and not a month ago like the ones from El Universal and Mitowsky, I firmly believe PRI will win the election there. But the election will be decided at the TRIFE, where the PRD has lots to lose because the PRI has been denouncing the state interference timely and orderly and their legal team has gathered many evidences of such state intervention. Unlike PRD in the Presidential election where they gave the TRIFE some boxes full of videotapes showing nothing from Betty la fea, and President Fox statements that prove nothing, and newspapers articles from La Jornada and Proceso.

Rodolfo:

No offense but I think rodollputo sounds better than rodoputo, I find the second one a little cacophonous while on the first one the ll adds a little colorful touch to it.

emptyboxes,

You might have a very big point about the Chiapas election being anulled or decided by TEPJF. My guess is that southern states
love to stick it to the Federal government and vote against it. There are a lot of Christian congregations stealing adepts from the Catholic church (Acteal), feeding a drive away from mainstream Mexico.

K.Vrona,

This is cyberspace. Who cares what I am
or if rodolfo is my real name, if I'm puto or puta, pimp or gigolo. I'll tell you a secret rodolfo is my dog's name. Is your name really K.Vrona?

Please don't answer that question, I couldn't care less. I like the name, though. Nice ring to it.

rodolfo: I guess I don´t really understand Chiapas or the region. I know the Mormons have got their largest communities outside USA in southeast Mexico and I also know there are many other fiercely religious congregations or little towns.
Excuse my ignorance but when the more I learn about the many and different indigenous peoples of that region, the more I feel they don't see Mexico as a united nation, but rather as a divided country.
Some people actually tells me there is some kind of balkanization going on there.
I have some friends from Oaxaca, they talk about their different towns and people as if they were other nations or races.
Is that so?
I thought they ate Gansitos and watch Televisa and TV Azteca´s respectable excremental contents.

Watch out Rodolfputo and Peter the dick, Maya subzero has got the guns. Now, if she can just figure out which end goes "bang", she gonna cap you!!

This latest video is going to boomerang seriously. "Smoky Kurtz" wants to be interviewed badly, he sent a letter to Gómez Leyva asking him to help and Ciro challenged Encinas to let Smokey be interviewed. Too bad Smokey's a political prisoner and being held incommunicado; he wants to tell what happened in Cuba besides what happened in DF.

Cuba, get your grubby hands off Mexican politics you FOREIGNERS! YOU'RE NOT MEXICANS!

Rodolfo, I'm a fanatical dog-lover as well as my husband. That's really cool to name your blog-handle after your dog, although I'm afraid that I'm more a K. Vronna (double 'N', please) than a "Bobi" (our mutt).

JerryB,

Comandante mayaO (remember comandante zero from Nicaragua) is very cabrona I agree so.
Her big guns are scary as the mob she runs.
Killing capitalist chapuceros- orders by the azteca sol. No sissy this muneca, she's Barbie with a grudge. Mighty AMLO rules her thoughts, she rules here, though. I say so.

K.Vronna: I really hope you are right and that video boomerang. Nothing really is more miserable than to see how these PRD people get support from totalitarian regimes to try to advance their political agenda.

emptyboxes,

I lived for a year in the Oaxaca coast and
I must tell you, they have well defined political views. If nihilism were a party
it would rule! I was never able to understand the HATRED between opposing rivals during elections. Once, there was an election for mayor and the same man everybody knew, became persona non grata to a degree that he was conked in the head with a stone pelting by the same people that greeted him good morning after the election. I think he won anyway, bandaged head and all. The only word that comes to mind is "Magic". The locals have magical expectations and react forcefully if their leaders negate their expectations. Oaxaca City a good example. A labor dispute turns into a governor ouster dispute.

The root of it is they have the most entrenched authoritarian culture in the country.

Speaking of the Oaxaca coast, imagine my surprise when I was in Puerto Escondido in April, and discovered that the Adoquin was now called "Blvd. Lic. Jose Murat". What a disgrace.

Jerry B:

Thanks for the heads up on maya0.

Isn´t he an art student, or was that someone else?

I´m still waiting to see if my questions to maya0 and vivi were answered on the last comment.

In the mean time, check this link to see who I really am like, according to some posts here......enjoy

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NPiGJBHVadA

Don´t worry if you only catch the odd word or half sentence, thats the whole point.

Unlike maya0s rants

K.Vronna,

complo is making a comeback. The clowning never stops.

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/369724.html

PeterN,

Bad politicians, comedy good:

18:29 Jesus Ortega, coordinator of campaign of Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, affirmed in press conference that with the Smoky video of Carlos presented today demonstrates the "plot" against the candidate of the coalition By the Good of All. "It is demonstrated that, yes there was that plot, participated from the president of the Republic (Vicente Fox), the secretary of Interior - in that then Santiago Creel, now coordinating of the senators panistas-, the ex- general solicitor of the Republic, Rafael Macedo of the Shell; the coordinator of the panistas senators, Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, and other actors". In opinion of Ortega "they are such actors who are still doing violence to the citizen will, being against to that Andrés Manuel is president of the Republic. I add a personage: Carlos Salinas de Gortari". Horacio Duarte, representative of the coalition By the Good

Yes. I always knew that bejarano and imaiz were obligated to chat and take the money in plastic bags and in their pockets. I guess after the shoot the video they probably, off camera, took the money away from the poor bejarano and imaiz.
The extrem of cynicism, AMLO crying out loud in the zocalo that this video proves the plot against him and that the TRIFE will have to give him the presidency.
These people stop at nothing.

PeterN,

I have no idea how I was able to look for him in my first try.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Pastora

Presidential Election

Both AMLO and Calderon act as if they have a mandate from the people, but the sad truth for both candidates is that almost two-thirds of the elctorate voted for someone else.

Chiapas Gubenatorial Election

Juan Sabines lost the PRI nomination for the Chiapas governors race to José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas and immediately became the PRD candidate for governor. I think that tells us a great deal about the PRD.

Jim Saunders,

You must be new to Mexican politics and politicians. Shame is not a job requirement

Here is what will happen in the next few days after Carmen Aristegui presented this video.
Hypocrite Denise Maerker will have a day interrogating those "involved" by Ahumada in a video produced in Cuba, and under very questionable circumstances and no defense lawyer for Ahumada. But that is not important for hyoocrite and mediocre journalists like Denise Maerker and Carmen Aristegui. No, according to them, there is nothing questionable about these videos. Then AMLO apologist Denise Dresser will come up with another one of her long articles to demonstrate how AMLO is a victim of the cruel people if this world and that this video explains all the nonsense we have been seeing from AMLO.
On Monday, Trujillo and his Mesa de Periodistas, all of them stupid leftists with nothing but masturbating wishes of annulment and interim presidents and chaos, among them Raymundo Riva Palacios, Julio Hernandez cocaine la jornada, Denise dresser probably, Marcela gomez, she used to be pro madrazo and now turned pro AMLO, and maybe they will invite Sergio aguayo or another equally biased and brainwashed unam leftist like lorenzo meyer, They will all have a day to discuss the video and their cocaine evidences of a plot to destroy their god AMLO.
All these bunch of imbeciles and frustrated leftist who dreamed of AMLO and a totalitarian communist regime for another 70 years have not learned that the people do not eat their sorry cocaine conspiracy theories. If Mexican people believe such imbecilities, then La Jornada would be the most respected newspaper in Mexico, as it is, only the brainwashed dumbs graduated at UNAM and the rest of radical ignorants read it today.

emptyboxes,

Reading La jornada is like reading l'osservatore romano. You gotta believe.
Denise Maerker wrote a surprisigly scathing article against Lopez on Aug.16 in Excelsior. Riva Palacio is also denuoncing Lopez, the strange thing is that in TV he seems a lot more liberal than in his newspaper articles.

Good night. Hasta tomorrow.

The next days it is going to get bumpy as the TRIFE gets ready to declare a president.

The closer we get to the fatal date, the worse AMLO and his people are going to get, more violent in his speeches, and resorting to everything they have in store.

This video is another one in a long list of audio tapes, emails and many other secret little things given to the public by the PRD in times they think most appropiate for them. But they missed this one, it does not add to AMLO's cause at all. If they want AMLO to look like a victim the he has to act like one, lift the Planton, take your people and tents to an area where you don't affect anybody, and stop vociferating like a mad dog at the microphone every evenining.
AMLO and PRD and their case is no news anymore, most people I talk to have lost their interest on them.

I BET the Washington Post will IGNORE these news. That was not part of the deal with Calderon who told the Post: do not talk about any irregularities, just say I won. And the Post followed his command jumping into the bandwagon of the negative campaign. Emptyskull: Aristegui a sell out... common! Even for you that is a little bit too much. She is the only journalist with credibility we have right now in Mexico. Sorry honey, Lopez Doriga and your friend Pedro Feriz do not match up.

POLITICS-MEXICO:
Recording Points to Plan Against López Obrador
Diego Cevallos

MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (IPS) - The Mexican leftwing presidential candidate, Andrés López Obrador, received support for his contention that government circles and the politically powerful had plotted against him, when a businessman revealed that a number of videos were aired in 2004 with the aim of bringing the politician into disrepute.

On Friday, a radio station broadcast a tape recording in which Argentine-born businessman Carlos Ahumada, in prison on fraud charges, declared that a series of videos, showing associates of López Obrador committing alleged acts of corruption, had been handed over to television channels by government authorities.

The videos, broadcast on television when López Obrador was mayor of Mexico City, were filmed by Ahumada and given to the leftwing politicians's opponents, among them former president Carlos Salinas (1988-1994), according to the businessman's statement.

They then reached the hands of the Vicente Fox administration, Ahumada said, and were subsequently handed on to the media with the intention of damaging the political aspirations of López Obrador, who belongs to the leftwing Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).

Ahumada's statements form part of an 11-minute video which apparently portrays an interrogation of the businessman in Cuba, where he was arrested in 2004 and subsequently deported to Mexico.

It is not known for sure who delivered Friday's tape to the local media. However, the Monitor radio station, which aired part of the recording, said that its investigations suggest that it was the PRD, which probably obtained it directly from Cuba.

According to López Obrador, the government of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and "the powers that be" have been trying to undermine him by different methods for several years, and he maintains that Ahumada's actions were a part of this conspiracy, and also that fraud was committed in the Jul. 2 presidential elections.

According to the official count, the election was won by governing party candidate Felipe Calderón by a narrow margin.

PRD spokesman Carlos Noroña told IPS that Ahumada's story that emerged this Friday "substantiates what we have been saying for a long time: that the government and others were behind the idea of pushing López Obrador out of the presidential race."

He added that now a "fraud" is being planned to illegally impose Calderón as president. He said that thousands of ballot papers had unaccountably gone missing, while others have appeared inexplicably, which will allow the "right" to declare themselves the winners. The PRD, which is demanding a vote-by-vote recount, filed a number of legal challenges regarding irregularities allegedly committed in thousands of voting stations on Jul. 2. The Federal Electoral Court, which ordered a partial recount of the vote, has until Sept. 6 to declare a president-elect or annul the elections.

The government, the business community and many analysts say there is no evidence of fraud, but are urging people to await the Electoral Court's decision. The left, which has been holding protests and blocking traffic, has warned that it will not accept the ruling unless the election is shown to be clean by a complete recount, or unless López Obrador is declared the winner.

A statistical analysis carried out by political scientists Alejandro Poiré of Harvard University and Luis Estrada of the University of California, San Diego, found no evidence whatsoever of fraud or manipulation of the election.

IPS learned that this study is one of the documents under consideration by members of the Electoral Court.

However, Víctor Romero Rochín, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Physics Institute, and Bolívar Huerta, a science professor at the university, said the vote tally by the Federal Electoral Institute's (IFE) Preliminary Electoral Results Programme (PREP), designed to carry out a quick vote count, had reflected "unusual" and "unlikely" statistical patterns.

In an interview with a local radio station, W Radio, Rochín explained that he and other researchers had carried out their own count of the votes, based on the results that IFE had made available on its web site, and said they found "strange patterns."

"Statistically speaking, the results fall outside of any reasonable pattern. Either there was meddling, or I don't know what happened," he said.

Salvador García, a columnist for the newspaper El Gráfico, said the appearance of this latest tape recording of statements by Ahumada is probably a PRD ploy to strengthen public support and sympathy for López Obrador. "It attempts to reinforce the idea that there has been a conspiracy against him for a number of months or years."

Ahumada said he used the video recordings of López Obrador's associates to obtain promises of protection from the government and other actors against accusations of corruption that he was facing, but that this protection never materialised.

Ahumada owns a construction company and had several contracts with the Mexico City mayor's office, until López Obrador became mayor in 2001. According to the businessman, López Obrador cancelled his contracts and through his associates subjected him to extortion -- allegations that are strenuously denied by the presidential candidate.

After the videos were broadcast in 2004, Ahumada fled to Cuba, where he was arrested and deported back to Mexico. Since then, he has remained in prison pending trial for alleged fraud and money laundering.

The videotapes, filmed with hidden cameras, show close associates of López Obrador receiving thousands of dollars from Ahumada. Another shows the former secretary of finance of the city government, Gustavo Ponce, gambling large sums of money at casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Senator Diego Fernández de Cevallos, of the governing PAN party, acknowledged Friday that he had seen the videos before they were aired on television, but denied that he had given them to the media.

"And even if I had, it doesn't matter now. The only thing that's certain is that the videos show associates of López Obrador taking part in acts of corruption, and that's the truth," he said.

Opponents of the leftwing candidate criticised him in 2004 for not admitting that his colleagues were corrupt, and for delivering instead a speech in which he maintained that the video scandals were all part of a smear campaign against him.

As mayor, López Obrador was accused by the attorney-general's office of contempt of court after allowing the construction of a short access road to a city hospital to continue. The road was being built on a disputed plot of land expropriated by the city government. Congress even stripped him of his immunity as a legislator so that he could face prosecution.

But the case, which López Obrador -- who was ahead in the polls for several years -- dismissed as a maneuver to bar him from running for the presidency, merely increased his popularity.

Eventually Fox instructed the attorney-general's office to drop the charges, and López Obrador's path was open for him to stand for president. (END/2006)

Hey! Aren't you the guy who works for the FEPADE and was caught working as Calderon's legal team in those e-mails? The nerve to be talking about legality... you should quit your job you electoral criminal.

And that is ANOTHER piece of good info the Post decided to ignore... keep it up Washington Post...

Rodolfo and Emptyboxes:

How can you support an ultraconservative
like Calderon? Mexico is about to go back to the times of the inquisition (but now with the opus dei in the mix). Not only the election is fraudulent, he keeps using the system to achieve his religious ends. Don Benito Juarez must be shaken in his tomb in El Angel...
And it is bad for Americans too since Calderon will never stop the influx of all those undocumented aliens (i guess as mexicans that is how you call them instead of illegal alliens). Calderon is just another Reagan wannabe but this time without the carisma (but he is probably smarter which is not hard).
YOu people are fools!

I repeat my earlier post of today:

"PLEASE!!!! IF ALL YOU CAN DO IS COPY & PASTE ENTIRE ARTICLES, WHY NOT JUST LOOK FOR SOMEWHERE ELSE TO POST!

Why not give a link, maybe cite a FEW lines from the article, and then give YOUR take on the subject BACKED WITH LOGICAL ARGUMENTS, not with a bunch of name-calling & ranting (except for maya0, we need the humor). If you're going to cite from newspapers with an obvious bias, either left or right, be prepared to defend your viewpoint with something more in-depth. I also think Rodolfo, or whatever the rabid are calling him nowadays, has it right about post